Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal preliminary to the CRIMSON's intended poll of University sentiment on the prohibition question ended yesterday in an overwhelming victory for the drys. There recently has been a rumor that those in charge of keeping clean the Business School dormitories were in the habit of collecting hundreds of bottles which found their way to the basement after being emptied of their alcoholic content, and that these bottles, on being resold to wet representatives, became a vitreous bonanza for the collectors, who netted tidy for tunes...
...disappointed men." The rumor started selling. Other rumors had it that a great bear attack was being launched to break the Pool. Such an event would be an economic disaster of the first magnitude, and even the rumors served to cause further selling...
Have you heard the rumor? It's about Miss Primson, the talkative spinster of Plympton Street. You know her, to be sure--she of pompous, pronuncia-mientos and of exquisite euphemisms. They say she is doting. What a pity...
Most Britons would sooner scrap King George's right eye than the battleship Rodney. In the House of Commons anxious Tories demanded if there was any truth in this startling rumor...
Similarly, there was considerable last minute confusion among students taking Economics A as to certain outside reading assigned in two books. Some instructors assigned both books while others assigned only one. Those assigning both gave as their reason that they were required to do so by the department. Rumor of this reaching students in sections where only one book had been read excited some pre-examination consternation. Moreover, in at least one section, progress had been so slow in the regular text that during the last weeks of the term assignments were raised from three chapters a week to three...